Day 35: Healing

You have to feel it to heal, said Mary. I didn’t believe her, instead preferring to compartmentalize. By not allowing myself to feel i could move through this world unencumbered by the yoke of pain. That was my plan. Except that the truth of my existence stood in opposition to this plan. The ancestors conspired to unchain my heart, unbound my spirit and walk me through each and every feeling i sought to avoid.